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Digital Collection: Random Images

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Brochure - Packard Clippers Six and Eight - Special and Custom - For 1942

Card, Trade

Bust

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Blueprint - Motor Construction - Transverse Sections 325-335

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Postcard - Nancy Brown Peace Carillon - Belle Isle Park - Detroit

Lamp, Oil

Print, Photographic - Ambassador Bridge

Postcard - Belle Isle Bridge from Gabriel Richard Park on Mainland, Detroit, Mich.

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Drawing, Technical - Detroit Harbor Mail Boat, C. F. Bielman, Jr.

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Card, Trade

Postcard

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Photograph, Cabinet

Almanac - The Detroit Free Press Almanac 1892

Program - 1997 Michigan State Fair Souvenir Program

Magazine - P-D Employees Review, vol. 2, no. 10, October 1946

Ribbon, Political

Print, Photographic - Immaculate Conception Ukrainian Catholic School

Tablespoon

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Table, Side

Catalog

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Jar, Confectionery

Set, Tableware

Automobile - 1911 Model T Ford Touring Car

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Invoice

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Print, Photographic - Wilson Barn, Joy Rd. and W. Chicago

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Print, Photographic - Thanksgiving Parade, Nov. 1973

Film, Motion Picture - Detroit Lions 1955 Football Highlights

Postcard - Jefferson Avenue and Burke Street, River Rouge, Mich.

Map - WJLB International Radio News Map 3rd Edition

Automobile - 1934 Chrysler Airflow 4-Door Sedan

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